Money, money, money

Dance is expensive ... ok I said it. Today we are going to talk about money. The costume deposits are due soon ... cue the music. With my son dancing 7 numbers each competition my deposit total is $525. On top of that they just convinced him to join the competitive jazz class on Friday nights bringing my monthly total to $400 to the studio for his classes and comp fees. Yup being a dance mom is quite expensive. I often marvel at how my mom managed to pay these fees for me. My husband and I are much better off than my parents ever were. I know that things cost more now but still back then there was a standard living too.

With money comes fundraising. The more we raise the less our fees for the competitions are in the Spring. Our first adventure is called Blue Jean Bingo Bash on November 9th at the Lambeth Legion. Single tickets are $25/ couples $45. We figure if all parents come and then bring one other couple we will hit our target. I am hoping to convince my girlfriends to all come for a fun night out.

Work is crazy frustrating right now. The campus paper is continuously printing incorrect information and it is killing me. Due to the nature of our business I can’t correct them outright and have to go through the proper channels which usually end up getting so complicated they don’t correct the problem. First the paper ran a story on the new Opt Out process ... oops they misquoted and flooded the Helpline, Counter and email with poor misguided students. Next they ran a story on how the big bad University over charges students. I fully understand why they are upset however they ran all the wrong information. The tuition due date was wrong, amount of a late fee wrong, reason a student would be charged a deferral fee wrong, they even got the request for deferral wrong. When students contact our office to complain about this and we correct them they get super annoyed. If the information was correctly reported initially we wouldn’t be in this situation.

With my social media class I am working on analytics. I was super excited to find that my sprout social actually kept all these stats. I learned that 32% of our twitter followers are between 18 & 20 and 33% 21 & 24. Recently our biggest engagement on Facebook has been our message about the preliminary exam schedule from Friday.